{"id":96072,"date":"2025-08-20T05:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96072\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:40:07","slug":"wpial-high-school-football-d3-college-football-games-coming-back-to-kdka-and-cbs-news-pittsburgh-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96072\/","title":{"rendered":"WPIAL high school football, D3 college football games coming back to KDKA+ and CBS News Pittsburgh this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MJD_2220.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>High school and college football are coming back to KDKA+ and CBS News Pittsburgh this fall.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>Starting on Aug. 22, KDKA+ will air ten regular season WPIAL high school football games as part of the Steelers High School Showcase Game of the Week series and seven NCAA Division III football games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to airing on KDKA+, the games will also be simulcasted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kdka.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KDKA.com<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CBS News Pittsburgh streaming service<\/a>, which can be accessed for free on numerous platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people of Southwestern Pennsylvania are fanatical about their football,&#8221; said KDKA-TV president and general manager Julie Eisenman, &#8220;So, we are thrilled to be able to broadcast these games to our local communities and give viewers an opportunity to watch games they might otherwise be unable to view.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The WPIAL high school games will air every Friday night from Aug. 22 through Oct. 24 with kickoff scheduled for 7 p.m. each week. The schedule of games to be broadcast is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>8\/22 &#8211; Imani Christian at Clairton8\/29 &#8211; Highlands at Elizabeth Forward9\/5 &#8211; Mars at North Hills9\/12 &#8211; Bethel Park at West Mifflin9\/19 &#8211; Penn Hills at Aliquippa10\/3 &#8211; South Fayette at Upper St. Clair10\/17 &#8211; North Allegheny at Pine-Richland10\/24 &#8211; Fan vote to choose the game of the week<\/p>\n<p>Matt Farago will call the play-by-play for the high school games and will be joined by former Pittsburgh Steelers players Arthur Moats and Mike Logan for color commentary. Suzie Cool will provide sideline reports.<\/p>\n<p>The college games will air on select Saturdays from Sep. 6 through Nov. 15 with kickoff time varying each week.\u00a0 The schedule of games to be broadcast is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>9\/6 &#8211; Utica at Washington &amp; Jefferson &#8211; 12 p.m.\u00a09\/13 &#8211; Mount Union at Grove City &#8211; 1 p.m.10\/11 &#8211; Westminster at Washington &amp; Jefferson &#8211; 2 p.m.10\/18 &#8211; Geneva at Waynesburg &#8211; 1 p.m.\u00a010\/25 &#8211; Westminster at Grove City &#8211; 1 p.m.11\/1 &#8211; Case Western Reserve at Washington &amp; Jefferson &#8211; 6 p.m.11\/15 &#8211; Bethany at Allegheny &#8211; 1 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Austin Bechtold and Alex Territ will anchor the coverage for the college games and will feature sideline reports from Robert Mangino.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Pittsburgh Live High school and college football are coming back to KDKA+ and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1607,399,24234,64991,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-96072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-high-school-football","11":"tag-kdka","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}